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(by Fareed Zakeria from Newsweek/MSNBC)
"And He's Head of Intelligence?
This is surely the first time a conservative evangelical has argued that
Bill Clinton's election was caused by divine intervention.
Oct. 27 issue -  President Bush's commission on public diplomacy recently
noted that in nine Muslim and Arab nations only 12 percent of respondents
surveyed believed that "Americans respect Arab/Islamic values." Such
attitudes, the commission argued, create a toxic atmosphere of
anti-Americanism that cripples U.S. foreign policy and helps terrorists. To
address the problem the commission suggested a major reorganization of the
American government, hundreds of millions of dollars of funding and the
creation of a new cabinet position. I have a simpler, more urgent
suggestion: fire William Boykin.
WILLIAM BOYKIN is the general who has recently been appointed to a senior
Defense Department post. Over the last two years the general has given
dozens of addresses to evangelical Christian groups in which, describing his
battle with a Somali (Muslim) warlord, he has said: "I knew that my God was
bigger than his God. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol."
He has also repeatedly explained that America's enemy was "a spiritual enemy
... called Satan." The enemy will only be defeated, he added, "if we come
against them in the name of Jesus." A few more of these and Osama bin Laden
won't need to make videos anymore.
He can just put together the greatest hits of Boykin, Franklin Graham, Pat
Robertson and Jerry Falwell and they will make his point nicely-that
Americans see all Muslims as enemies. Oh, and here is a quick refresher
course for the Pentagon intelligence chiefs: Islam was founded, in part, as
a reaction against idol worship and rigorously prohibits any graven images.
When have you seen a statue of Muhammad?
When confronted last week, General Boykin claimed, of course, that his
remarks had been taken out of context. When referring to the Somali warlords
' God, he explained, he meant money and power. Untrue. In Boykin's original
tale, he explained that the Somali warlord had bragged that the Americans
would not capture him because his God, Allah, would protect him. "Well,"
General Boykin continued, "my God was bigger than his God ... "
His dissembling gets almost comic over another one of his comments. Boykin
routinely told audiences that God elevated George W. Bush to the presidency.
"Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote
for him," he would say. "I tell you this morning that he's in the White
House because God put him there." Boykin now explains that he believes God
routinely decides American elections and has done the same thing for "Bill
Clinton and other presidents." This is surely the first time a conservative
evangelical has argued that Clinton's election was caused by divine
intervention.
When asked about these remarks, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld refused to
condemn them, explaining, "We're a free people." But the issue is not
whether the general is free to express his views, but whether Secretary
Rumsfeld wants someone who holds such views in high office. After all, were
the general to have expressed his opinion that the Iraq war was a blunder,
he would have been fired.""
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He does? When did he say that? Or are you lying?
 How else could you
He may or He may not. Man does have control over his own destiny through
free choice, an inalienable right. If God did put GWB in the White House,
could be have been chosen to be the vessel of God's wrath as described in
the Book of Jeremiah as the (America's Seal) "Eagle?
Free choice like free speech, will be exercised in November 2004. May God's
will be done...or mans.
CB
Romans 13
3     For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou
then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have
praise of the same:
4     For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that
which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is
the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
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in
Why are soldiers required to put their faith in some Secular lock box when
employed in their countries service? You think the enemy does? The God of
Abraham is a merciful God to those who seek his face, for those who seek
destruction and follow the Whore of Babylon, Justice is their fate.
President Bush defends America in the name of Justice for all, not in the
name of God.
 It's politically stupid.
As stupid as the American electorate who in the Red States gave their
electoral votes to GWB?
Remember when the Whitehouse did a
Only because you Libs flip out over anything patriotic, flag waving or God
taking. God forbid anyone actually took Gods Word to heart...and soul.
For the enemy and his handmaids"
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